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The Story Project: A Lesson Plan for the Combining Voices Literary Competition

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze Simple Answer, by John Cleaveland, and use this image to inspire a short story. They use both verbal and visual language to help them create the characters and the plot. The lesson plan contains steps that helps the...
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How To: Friendly Letter Writing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the proper mechanics of a letter by writing to fictional characters. In this friendly letter lesson, 2nd graders read the book Stars in the Darkness, analyzing the story and characters with classmates. Students...
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Bits and Pieces!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discuss story elements including characters, setting, problem and solution. They listen to the story, Winter Fun, and identify the story elements. Then they draw pictures and write one sentence for each story element.
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Heritage: Petroglyphs and the Stories They Tell

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are introduced to the use of petroglyphs as a form of communication by the Native American tribes of the region that is now Utah. They prepare their own original picture stories and then switch with a partner to translate...
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The Tell Tale Students

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice summarizing text by retelling what they have read. They read selected, leveled passages and use enthusiastic and createive ways to members of their group. Students complete a journal entry documenting their experience...
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The Holocaust: Survival Stories

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students use survival stories as the theme for written assignments and a photography presentation.
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Using Children's Literature to Teach Writing: No, David!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review beginning, middle, and end of a story and how details add to a story.
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Summarizing Puts the Pieces Together

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students summarize a piece of fiction. After reviewing the correct way to read and summarize, students work in groups to summarize a piece of text assigned by the instructor. They write a summary paragraph by creating a story map and...
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Horrible Harry and the Green Slime by Suzy Kline - Level L Book Reading Comprehension Packet/Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice reading skills by reading a story and answering questions over that story. In this Horrible Harry and the Green Slime lesson, 3rd graders answer questions over story elements, vocabulary, and comprehension. They...
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Poetic Justice: A Study of Poe's Famous Works

For Teachers 8th
Students explore Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. In this Edgar Allan Poe lesson, students complete a 25 page packet of activities where they recognize the features of genres and literary devices Poe uses. Students read "The...
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Draw a Story

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts learning exercise, students practice the skill of retelling the sequence of a story through drawing three pictures.
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Batter Up

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore personal achievement by reading a children's book. In this story analysis lesson, students read the book Batter Up, by Sue Muller Hacking and discuss the main character in the story and the actions that she takes to meet...
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Economics: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the idea of an economy by reading a children's story. In this consumerism lesson, 1st graders read the story If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and discuss goods provided by people in a community. Students create...
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Dr. Seuss Diaries

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students find a Dr. Seuss quote or saying from a selected book and relate it to their own life experience by using the quote in a short story. They choose a Dr. Seuss book from a pre-selected group or from the school library. Students...
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Rockin' Map Summaries

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students summarize a piece of text. After reviewing the correct way to read and summarize, students work in groups to summarize a piece of text assigned by the instructor. They write a summary paragraph by creating a story map and the...
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Theatre Lesson Plan: Finding Your Way

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify story elements in familiar stories from their lives. For this story elements lesson, 2nd graders act out familiar activities  by following directions. Students read a story and discuss the story elements....
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Author's Corner

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read a picture book at a Web site about a bunny who solves a problem and becomes friends with a squirrel. Students then discuss story with classmates, brainstorm ideas for their own stories about friendship, and read the...
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Sequencing Stories

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore dramatization. In this literacy fluency and drama lesson, students listen to the story Mop Top by Don Freeman and add related sounds at the appropriate times. Young scholars role play, pantomime, and add sounds...
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Retelling Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore language arts by reciting a famous nursery rhyme to their classroom. In this oral storytelling activity, 4th graders read the story "The Three Little Pigs" and identify the characters, setting and story. Students...
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Determining Importance

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe pieces of art and look for the principle story the artwork portrays. They compare the techniques artists and authors use to focus on and support these essential stories. They create a piece of art that portrays a given...
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Gluskap Story Skits

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and analyze a Gluskap (Algonquin legend) story. Together, they discuss the morals and values these stories demonstrate and in groups, create and perform an imaginative skit based on one of them. They perform their skits for...
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Fun with Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners practice summarization by creating a story map. After reading Freckle Juice, students working in groups, create a story map of the main events of the story. Groups use their story maps to summarize a chapter of the story and...
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Character Cluster

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice identifying characters and story elements by creating a character cluster in class.  In this story analysis lesson, 3rd graders discuss the story Snow White and identify the characteristics of the evil witch....
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Story Parts

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify the three major parts of a story. After reading the book "Stellaluna," students discuss the beginning, middle and end of the story. They write a short story depicting the events that would happen if the story...

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